From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Wilson Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 21:13:48 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Pseudo-ops: IAS versus ia64-hp-linux-as Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >The following explanation is from the developer of IAS: Thanks for the explanation. It has been obvious to me for almost 3 years that there was a problem with managing the size of the short data section, and it is good to see that Intel has defined a solution for this. >Note: that the two must come together and the need for linker support. As >far as I know GNU linker does not support this. Because the GNU hackers didn't know about the feature until now. ld8.mov isn't mentioned in my copy of the Assembler Reference Guide. I see that there is a new version of it on the Intel web site, but in order to figure that out, I had to download it first. It would be nice if these documents had version numbers, so I can more easily tell when new versions are available. Also, the lack of change bars and a document history chapter means I have to compare the new doc against the old doc by hand to find what is new. That is enough of a hassle that I rarely bother to do it. Jim